Jessica is kind of coasting through her life. She's got a moderate ambition to become a solicitor but is content to remain a secretary to her solicitor ex for the time being. One day she's running to her car in the park with her dog Frankie to avoid the incoming storm when she runs into a stranger who sparks fly with immediately. Literally. Because as she's huddled with Dan to avoid the rain, she's struck by lightning. When she wakes up in the hospital, she's not Jessica but Lauren, unhappily married mother of four. She immediately tells the nurse that she's not Lauren, and the nurse looks at her as if she's lost her marbles. She modifies her story to Grant, Lauren's husband, telling him simply that she remembers nothing of their life together. When she goes to sleep as Lauren, she wakes up as Jessica and vice versa. Jessica wants her life back but soon realizes that the lightning killed Lauren, and the children need her. How will she give up the potential with Dan, who she's fallen for immediately, to take over the reins as Lauren? Surely she can't remain in two bodies forever.
I bought this book primarily for the cover. I've read several books with some similar plot line and they just drag for me. After about 50 pages, I got antsy and read the ending of the book to see if it had an ending that was worth reading the book. Don't get me wrong, there was nothing unenjoyable about the beginning of the book, I just found myself dragging my feet about reading it. As soon as I read the ending, I knew I had to read the book in it's entirety. Totally different than the other books I had clumped this with, it was an interesting, if a little too tidy, book with interesting plot twists. A nice car or plane ride book.
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This sounds like a cute book! I have to admit, I thought it was YA based on the cover for some reason.
I must agree...the cover does have me leaning towards YA or perhaps chick lit...but is beautiful none the less. That's the one problem with judging a book by the cover, you never know what you're really getting into. Glad to see that you gave it a shot and came out better for it in the end!
(Hopping through from the Blogger Hop....)
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